Los Angeles Studio Sale
Welcome to my first ever studio sale! With a number of shows last year and several forthcoming, I have little room in my Brooklyn loft and have closed my LA studio. The pieces that I am selling have been displayed in several exhibitions around Los Angeles and are available as-is, at a significant discount.
Inquiries: Phone: 917-697-8977
Email: sarah.baley@gmail.com
Pigeons, Poultry, Psychics & Porn
Inspired by the string of storefront porn shops, psychic shops, live poultry markets and rooftop pigeon coops. These storefronts are randomly and poetically linked, literally attached to one another under the Gowanus and other areas in NYC, abandoned by another era. Suspended in time, they coexist inside a rapidly changing world and hang on as the world evolves and technology slowly dissolves these spaces.
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Slide To Unlock: STOP ME
Slide to Unlock: STOP ME examines the effect of technology on relationships, intimacy, communication, time and art in how we identify and function as a society. I am interested in the obsessive attachment we have to our devices and the role it plays in our lives. The device is central subject in most of the images in the series and triangulates intimate moments and relationships. It coexists as a participant in our experiences, recording everything from the banal to the most intimate moments. Desire exists in a vicarious reality. The space is expansive and confined at once, like a virtual panopticon. While it appears reciprocal and bi-directional, we are exposed more than ever on multiple levels. Our lives are projected via the device to the internet and an instant audience. Time is consumed in a vacuum, while space and distance contract, creating an illusory sense of contact and closeness experienced through a screen. We rely on technology to communicate, yet the device is divisive and redefines how we experience connection, the way we think, the way we write, and our freedom and privacy. We live our lives in public. People chronicle every moment of their existence. Ubiquitous images saturate public space via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, creating a democratization of photos. The absence of formality is effecting and degrading language and art, particularly photography. Art forms like photography and writing have been impacted and from the relics rise a new wave of language and art more accessible to the masses.
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“Sexuality is prismatic — the full spectrum of color. Elusive and in a constant state of transformation, it slips through your fingers at any attempt to grasp or find it.” –Sarah Baley
Sarah Baley captured a moment in the continually evolving story of gender-fluidity and sexuality in our culture.
The series Bois was created in 2005/2006. At the time, “Boi and Bois” were considered fluid terms used amongst the contemporary queer community as a response to, and rejection of, labels that defined social normalcy, heterocentrism and heteronormativity.
This community, then considered a fringe side of contemporary queer culture, rejected the gender binary system when gender fluidity was not understood by dominant culture. Few were able to grasp gender as undefined and alive in a constant non-static state. It was so foreign, in fact, that it took several years before the series was finally shown at a gallery in New York’s Lower East Side.
Bois is a celebration of freedom and the individual. Visually expressed in cinematic portraits using classism and elements of Chiaroscuro and Tenebrism. The cityscape is photographed in its transformation and metaphorically mirrors the ever changing landscape of gender and queer sexuality, moving, alive and fluid.
Works from the series are in the permanent collections of the J Paul Getty Museum and The Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as in numerous private collections.
–Published on: July 25, 2021 · Sprit & Flesh. Art & Cluture: Where The Bois Are
